SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is changing wedding rules in hopes of preventing family members who aren’t church members from feeling excluded. The faith said Monday in a news release that couples who get married in civil ceremonies will no longer have […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — The city of Provo is ending its urban deer relocation program. The Daily Herald reported Monday that Provo will no longer relocate deer found wandering within city limits in the wake of state officials’ decision to no longer make that an option. The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources […]
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A man accused of fatally shooting a West Valley City code-enforcement officer will likely get life in prison. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Kevin Wayne Billings is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning after pleading guilty in February to aggravated murder, aggravated cruelty to an […]
Three teens are now dead after a fatal crash in Sanpete County Friday night near Mt. Pleasant. According to the Utah Highway Patrol, 18-year-old Ryan Lyman of Ephraim, 16-year-old Julie Oldroyd and 16-year-old Kody Wheeler both of Fountain Green, were killed after the car they were passengers in rear ended […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A University of Utah student who was fatally shot by a man she briefly dated was honored during the school’s commencement ceremony. KUTV reports nearly 8,500 graduates on Thursday night participated in the university’s 150th general commencement. Some of them wore pins to remember Lauren McCluskey. McCluskey, […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police have arrested a woman in South Salt Lake on suspicion that she fed her boyfriend drain cleaner with the intention to kill him. A jail booking report shows that 43-year-old Elle Yoshio Weissman was arrested Tuesday after telling investigators she had given her live-in […]
MAGNA, Utah (AP) — The Utah Power Plant in Magna is shutting down for good after 75 years of operation. Mining company Rio Tinto Kennecott on Wednesday announced the official retirement of the plant following regulatory approval. The plant provided electricity that served as a reliable resource for mining at […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah man has admitted to beating his estranged wife to death with a crowbar and pummeling his 13-year-old daughter with the same tool. The Deseret News reports 55-year-old Walter Eugene Brantzeg of Salt Lake City pleaded guilty to the crimes Thursday as part of […]
LOGAN, Utah (AP) — The Huntsman family plans to donate $12 million toward new professorships at Utah State University’s business school. The Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday that the endowment is in honor of late family patriarch Jon M. Huntsman Sr., a billionaire chemical industrialist who died in February 2018. Jon Hunstsman […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A judge is ordering a Utah man to stand trial on aggravated murder and other charges in the deaths of two teenagers whose bodies were found tossed down a mine shaft. Judge Derek Pullan handed down the decision Monday in the case of Jerrod Baum, […]
